Word: mutism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your intention to monopolize the conversation this evening." It was not. On the air, Harpo ogled the camera with idiot grins and adroit grimaces, whistled replies between his fingers, blew smoke bubbles at Murrow and sadly plucked at his harp. But, in the lifelong tradition of "inviolable mutism." he was noisily silent. Tumbling over the furniture in his Palm Springs home, fright-wigged Harpo was as much a problem to chatty Mrs. Marx (exActress Susan Fleming...
...years of Denmark's plan, there were 8,600 sterilizations (in a population of 4,500,000). More than two-thirds were performed on mental defectives, of whom two-thirds were women. Of the 3,663 patients sterilized for reasons other than mental deficiency (e.g., physical deformities, deaf-mutism), seven-eighths were women. In recent years the number sterilized for feeblemindedness has dropped sharply (from 283 to 165 a year), partly because the backlog of cases adjudged to need sterilization has been reduced, but partly, Kemp admits, "because the definition of feeblemindedness has changed during recent years...